Actually, I can see my house from the "Street View" here, on Google Maps, once I enter in my home address. Not an overhead shot, but an actual from-the-street view, just like someone drove past and took a picture (which they did).
I can also see my folks' house (hi, Mom!). And Jim & Ginger's house (looks like it was a KOA weekend when Google did the drive-by).
Not quite as creepy as this ... yet ... but still ...
I need to remember this next time I'm going over to someone's house I've not been to. One thing to know the address, another thing to know what the house looks like. Though the precision of the address functionality seems to be limited -- my folks' addy is off by a house, and we're down the street a bit from our picture, too.
I've heard about this functionality, of course -- and of amusing anecdotes about people being "caught" in the pictures who didn't want it known they were ever at a particular location. But to see it for personal examples is a bit ... interesting.
(via a co-worker who was a bit creeped out by it -- esp. when a picture of her friend's house showed her jeep on the driveway.)
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Yep, Street View is cool (*I* think so) but has also caused many people to freak out and sue Google over things that appear in the view as the car drove by (folks having sex, cats in windows, people...ummm...visiting folks they shouldn't be, women with visible thongs bending over, folks picking their noses, etc). I guess it's one thing to be doing questionable things in public, but another things being caught on camera and having it accessible by everyone on the intertubes.
And yes, it does look like it's KOA weekend, and you really need to ask Jim or Ginger when trash day is, since this looks to be the trash day before KOA v after.
Where as it looks like they drove by the Consortium some time in the late evening during the summer (July/August) when no one was home.
Hard to tell if anyone was home -- but that sounds about the right period based on the garden and shadows.
A quick and dirty look into this service finds that
1) None of the area around me has been photographed
2) The photographed halfway up my dad's road, but not the loop at the top
3) None of my friends in the south bay area have been photographed, but Point Loma and coronado have
4) Mario's house in SF is pictured.
It's an interesting patchwork of locations.
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